CVE-2007-4061

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-07-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in Nessus Vulnerability Scanner 3.0.6 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the argument to the saveNessusRC method, which writes text specified by the addsetConfig method, possibly related to the SCANCTRL.ScanCtrlCtrl.1 ActiveX control in scan.dll. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected products

Nessus Vulnerability Scanner: 3.0.6

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/26243
http://www.nessus.org/news/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237
http://secunia.com/advisories/26243
http://www.nessus.org/news/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237

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